This Week in Doctor Who
Week 42: 22-28 Oct 2016 - USA
Saturday 22 October
| 6:00pm EDT Paradise Towers: Part Three |
| 6:30pm EDT Paradise Towers: Part Four |
| 7:00pm EDT Delta and the Bannermen: Part One |
| 7:30pm EDT Delta and the Bannermen: Part Two |
| 7:00pm MDT The Sontaran Experiment: Part One (Repeated: Sun 1:00am MDT) | Harry and Sarah walk into a trap on the uninhabited Earth. Dr. Who: Tom Baker. Harry: Ian Marter. Sarah: Elisabeth Sladen. Styre: Kevin Lindsay. Erak: Peter Walshe. Zake: Terry Walsh. |
| 9:30pm EDT Tom Baker Movies: The Ribos Operation | With his new assistant Romana (Mary Tamm), the Doctor begins the search for the Key to Time. Dr. Who: Tom Baker. Voice of K9: John Leeson. Vynda-K: Paul Seed. Guardian: Cyril Luckham. Garron: Iain Cuthbertson. Unstoffe: Nigel Plaskitt. Binro: Timothy Bateson. WFWA seem to have skipped The Invasion of Time in this run. |
| 10:00pm EDT Tom Baker Movies: The Masque Of Mandragora |
| 10:00pm CDT Underworld: Part Three | The Doctor must penetrate the Citadel to save the astronauts' race. Dr. Who: Tom Baker. Leela: Louise Jameson. Idas: Norman Tipton. Jackson: James Maxwell. Orfe: Jonathan Newth. Tala: Imogen Bickford-Smith. |
| 10:00pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Stones Of Blood | The Doctor, Romana and K9 are led by the tracer to the Nine Travellers, a circle of standing stones on Boscombe Moor in present-day England, but the third segment is nowhere to be found. They meet elderly archaeologist Professor Emilia Rumford and her assistant Vivien Fay, who are surveying the site, and learn that the circle appears to have had a variable number of stones over the years. |
| 10:00pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Hand Of Fear | The TARDIS arrives on contemporary Earth, where Sarah comes into contact with what appears to be a fossilised human hand. This is in fact the last surviving fragment of a Kastrian called Eldrad, who was blown up in space as a punishment for attempting to wipe out his own people. |
| 11:00pm EDT Tom Baker Movies: The Ark in Space | The TARDIS arrives on an apparently deserted and deactivated space station Nerva, otherwise known as the Ark, orbiting Earth in the far future. There the Doctor, Sarah and Harry discover the last survivors of the human race held in suspended animation, Earth having been evacuated thousands of years earlier when solar flares threatened to destroy all life. |
| 10:00pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Power of Kroll | The search for the Key to Time lands Dr. Who and Romana on a moon inhabited by swamp people---and a gigantic monster. Dr. Who: Tom Baker. Fenner: Philip Madoc. Romana: Mary Tamm. Thawn: Neil McCarthy. Dugeen: John Leeson. Rohm-Dutt: Glyn Owen. Online listings indicated this broadcast was The Armageddon Factor, the WYCC magazine listed it as The Androids of Tara. |
| 10:30pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Masque Of Mandragora | The TARDIS is temporarily captured by the Mandragora Helix, a spiral of energy with a controlling influence, at the centre of which the ship is infiltrated by a sparkling ball of energy. |
| 11:00pm CDT Into the Dalek | A Dalek fleet surrounds a lone rebel ship, and only the Doctor can help them. With the Doctor facing his greatest enemy, he needs Clara. |
| 11:00pm CDT Pertwee Movies: The Mutants - Part 1 of 3 | The Time Lords send the Doctor to a Skybase above the planet Solos in the 30th Century. The Marshal of the Skybase is determined to prevent Solos achieving independence from Earth. Compiles episodes 5 through 9 from "Doctor Who" series 9. |
| 11:30pm CDT Tom Baker Movies: The Invisible Enemy | The TARDIS is infiltrated by the Swarm - a space-borne intelligence that wishes to spread itself across the universe - and the Doctor is infected by its nucleus. The ship then materialises on Titan, one of the moons of Saturn, where the human occupants of a refuelling station have also been taken over. |
| 11:46pm CDT Pertwee Movies: The Mutants - Part 2 of 3 | The Time Lords send the Doctor to a Skybase above the planet Solos in the 30th Century. The Marshal of the Skybase is determined to prevent Solos achieving independence from Earth. Compiles episodes 17 and 18 from "Doctor Who" series 9. |
| 11:00pm MDT Tom Baker Movies: The Keeper of Traken | The Doctor and Adric learn from the wizened Keeper of Traken that a great evil has come to his planet in the form of a Melkur - a calcified statue. The Keeper is nearing the end of his reign and seeks the Doctor's help in preventing the evil from taking control of the bioelectronic Source that is the keystone of the Traken Union's civilisation.. Pre-empted by Silk (Masterpiece Mystery!) episode 1.1 (1st Oct), 1.2 (8th Oct), and 1.3 (15th Oct). |
Sunday 23 October
| 12:32am CDT Pertwee Movies: The Mutants - Part 3 of 3 | The Time Lords send the Doctor to a Skybase above the planet Solos in the 30th Century. The Marshal of the Skybase is determined to prevent Solos achieving independence from Earth. Compiles episodes 19 and 20 from "Doctor Who" series 9. |
Saturday 22 October
| 11:00pm PDT The Daleks: The Rescue (Repeated: Sun 4:00am PDT) |
| 10:00pm AKDT Tom Baker Movies: Meglos (Repeated: Sun 3:00am AKDT) | The Doctor meets his match when he is summoned to Tigella, a planet whose energy source has become unstable. Tom Baker, Lalla Ward. Earthling: Christopher Owen. Zastor: Edward Underdown. Caris: Collette Gleeson. Brotodac: Frederick Treves. |
| 11:30pm PDT The Edge of Destruction (Repeated: Sun 4:30am PDT) |
Monday 24 October
| 12:00am EDT Pertwee Movies: The Sea Devils - Part 1 of 3 (Repeated: Tue 3:30am EDT) | The Doctor investigates when, near the island on which the Master is incarcerated, giant lizards begin attacking ships. |
| 9:00am EDT Flatline | Separated from the Doctor, Clara discovers a new menace from another dimension. But how do you hide when even the walls are no protection? With people to save and the Doctor trapped, Clara comes up against an enemy that exists beyond human perception. |
| 10:00am EDT In The Forest Of The Night | One morning in every city and town in the world, the human race wakes up to face the most surprising invasion yet. Everywhere, in every land, a forest has grown overnight and taken back the Earth. |
| 7:00pm EDT Planet of the Spiders: Part Four |
| 7:30pm EDT Planet of the Spiders: Part Five |
Tuesday 25 October
| 9:00am EDT Dark Water | In the world of the Nethersphere, plans have been drawn. Missy is about to come face to face with the Doctor, and an impossible choice is looming. "Death is not an end" promises the sinister 3W but, as the Doctor and Clara discover, you might wish it was. |
| 10:00am EDT Death in Heaven | With Cybermen on the streets of London, old friends unite against old enemies and the Doctor takes to the air in a startling new role. Can the mighty UNIT contain Missy? As the Doctor faces his greatest challenge, sacrifices must be made. |
| 7:00pm EDT Planet of the Spiders: Part Six |
| 7:30pm EDT Robot: Part One |
| 10:00pm CDT Into the Dalek | A Dalek fleet surrounds a lone rebel ship, and only the Doctor can help them. With the Doctor facing his greatest enemy, he needs Clara. |
Wednesday 26 October
| 9:00am EDT The Magician's Apprentice | Part 1. "Where is the Doctor?" When the skies of Earth are frozen by a mysterious alien force, Clara needs her friend. But where is the Doctor, and what is he hiding from? As past deeds come back to haunt him, old enemies will come face-to-face. |
| 10:00am EDT The Witch's Familiar | Part 2. Trapped and alone in a terrifying Dalek city, the Doctor is at the heart of an evil Empire; no sonic, no TARDIS, nobody to help. With his greatest temptation before him, can the Doctor resist? And will there be mercy? |
| 7:00pm EDT Robot: Part Two |
| 7:30pm EDT Robot: Part Three |
Thursday 27 October
| 7:00pm EDT Robot: Part Four |
| 7:30pm EDT The Ark In Space: Part One |
| 10:30pm CDT Robot Of Sherwood | When Robots threaten Sherwood forest, the Doctor helps Robin Hood to stop the evil Sheriff of Nottingham. |
Friday 28 October
| 4:30am EDT Deep Breath | Clara is alone in Victorian London with a man she doesn't know, a dinosaur in the Thames, and a spate of deadly spontaneous combustions. The Doctor has changed. It's time you knew him. |
| 7:00pm EDT The Ark In Space: Part Two |
| 7:30pm EDT The Ark In Space: Part Three |